Software Best Easy On-Hack, Adobe or Microsoft?

In the early decades, Forbes says that Microsoft has become the target of the cubercriminal dreams, and often a hacker exploits a soft land. However, with development time, the giant software company also fix bugs, and then hackers find another target that weakness is also easy to find, namely Adobe.


According to Verisign, a powerful bug tracking vendor, has found 45 bugs in the software Adobe Reader. In fact, iDefense has found 14 bugs in the Adobe Reader, and beambah doubled in the year 2007. Meanwhile, the bug ever found in Microsoft's programs, such as Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and Microsoft Office continued to decline. Only 30 bugs in Internet Explorer at iDefense found last year, and 41 bugs in all Microsoft Office programs, down from 44 bugs in the year 2008.

According to Forbes, many well-known security companies, such as TippingPoint, iDefense and Qualys which gives the position of the Adobe Reader to top the list in this category in the program the easiest to hack, but Microsoft certainly. TippingPoint noted, Adobe Reader software is owned by almost every penggunaweb, and complex code in it could invite greater risk for hackers into the computer user.

In addition, Adobe Reader, which is used to read PDF files, can execute JavaScript in order to play the animation or pull information dynamically from the database. These capabilities enable the program to allocate memory for the use of documents. Combined together with the existing bug, then with tricks like the above, a hacker can execute code on a user computer and to install malicious programs.

While Adobe is the focus of hackers, but targets long as Internet Explorer and Firefox still have not declared safe, according to the Quals. In fact, a lot of code that exploits the results of the forum are sold in packages cybercriminal with some weaknesses of their system ready to be exploited, he added.

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